" At 9:30 that night, the air-raid sirens sounded, everyone went to the shelters, but no one hurried, we were use to the alarms, we assumed they were false, why would anyone want to bomb Dresden?" Here Oskar's grandfather is telling the events that happened in Dresden that lead him to come to US
The bombing of dresden and september 11 are both historical tragedies that deeply affected oscar and his family, even though they were many miles and many years apart
The atomic detonation over Hiroshima and the fire-bombing of Dresden are related for obvious reasons. Both are examples of those historical tragedies that are the ultimate results of war and the products of a breakdown of diplomacy and communication.